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...ninth curfew day his soldiers began pounding Tanjong Malim doors. They handed each householder an envelope containing a letter from Templer and a questionnaire form. Wrote George Templer (in Malay, Chinese and Tamil): "If you are a Communist, I do not expect you to reply. If you are not, I want you to give as much information as possible ... It is quite safe . . . none will know which form comes from which house. Do not sign your name unless you want...
...within four days his men had arrested 28 suspected Communist collaborators, among them several prosperous shopkeepers. Last week in the central playing field at Tanjong Malim, the populace was assembled before a platform decorated with loudspeakers and British and Malayan flags. The people were told that the 22-hour curfew was lifted. Men with 13 days' lost work to make up, and mothers anxious for their pale, sickly children heaved audible sighs of relief...
Overnight permission is given to any girl who wants it on the weekends, and to juniors and seniors at all times. But those who return to the campus must be there before the curfew tolls. The impressive Main Gate closes on weekdays at 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on weekends. Although there is a liberal attitude towards infractions of the lateness rule, the "hole" in the fence through which students used to be able to crawl in after hours has been wired-up. "Let the or twice so long as it doesn't become habitual." And latecomers...
...appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night, a rigid curfew kept things quiet except for the barking of dogs and the rumble of snub-nosed Renault riot cars patrolling the streets...
...depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped a 22-hour curfew on the entire village, allowing inhabitants to move about only during the usual midday shopping hours, and cut the rice ration of all but children from 6⅔ to 4 Ibs. per week...